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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3376018, member: 56859&quot;]It does take time to learn the best way to search all of these databases.&nbsp; Some search words will yield so many results that it isn&#039;t helpful.&nbsp; Some sites will take into consideration minor spelling variations of names and places (ACsearch is pretty good about this); others don&#039;t.&nbsp; There is an art to using just the right search words.&nbsp; It helps if the unknown coin you&#039;re trying to identify has some feature that is less common, or a combination of features you can be reasonably sure of.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is difficult if you aren&#039;t able to identify or guess at at least a couple of the features of a coin.&nbsp; For instance, with the coin you showed, hopefully you recognized the obverse as Tyche (her headdress is the giveaway).&nbsp; However, search terms of only &quot;tyche ae&quot; are going to yield a megaton of hits.&nbsp; You could try &quot;tyche bust ae&quot; (order of words isn&#039;t important) and that cuts out a thousand hits but still leaves you with two thousand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes something unrelated will sneak in and you can get rid of those hits by typing a dash before the word.&nbsp; For instance, if the search results included a bunch of tetradrachms, you could add &quot;-tetradrachm&quot; to the search terms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, now you know that the reverse of your coin shows a prow so you can narrow it down considerably by adding &quot;prow&quot; to the search string... or even more because Ed and David and I pegged it as being from Phoenicia <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure you&#039;ll be able to do more than say &quot;probably from Arados&quot;. There may be several types that could fit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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